University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, GA, J.D., cum laude, 1978

Admitted

1978, Georgia

Biography

John Thompson is a partner in the Atlanta office. His practice focuses on wage and hour law, emphasizing issues relating to minimum wage, overtime, timekeeping, and wage-payment requirements.

He assists employers in preventive efforts designed to ensure compliance, and he handles both investigations conducted by government agencies and litigation in the wage and hour area.

John has served as a Special Assistant Attorney General for wage-hour matters for the State of Georgia.

He has also addressed wage-hour topics in presentations to numerous employer groups and in articles appearing in both human resources publications and industry journals.

John was recognized as an Employment Law - Management Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in America for 2014. He is AV Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has been included in Georgia Super Lawyers.

He has also been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 2006 and in Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers since 2009. John is the editor of the firm's Wage & Hour Laws Blog.

News/media

Do Employees Have a Legal Right to a Predictable Schedule?February 2, 2015

Documents by this lawyer on Martindale.com

"Predictable Scheduling": An Undiscovered FLSA "Right"?John E. Thompson, February 17, 2015U.S. Wage and Hour Division Administrator David Weil reportedly has said that the Division is "looking very actively at" the question of whether workers should be legally entitled to "predictable scheduling". In recounting Mr. Weil's statements in a recent interview, Daily Labor...

FLSA Insurance-Adjuster Overtime Exception Buried In Appropriations BillJohn E. Thompson, January 10, 2015Section 111 of the recently-enacted "Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2015" directs that the federal Fair Labor Standards Act "shall be applied as if" there is an overtime exclusion (link to reproduction below) for certain workers who are employed to adjust or evaluate...

Minimum-Wage Initiatives Further Disfavor Nationwide ActionJohn E. Thompson, January 8, 2015Earlier this week, several states and localities voted in favor of increasing their minimum-wage rates. Right on cue, many (including U.S. Labor Secretary Perez) seized upon these results as ostensibly supporting an increase in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's rate to $10.10.